Saturday, October 15, 2016

Feast of St. Teresa of Avila

Saturday, October 15, 2016


Feast of St. Teresa of Avila

















St. Teresa of Avila on an easy way to acquire the prayer of recollection ...
Delight to remain with Him; do not lose such an excellent
 time for talking with Him as the hour after Communion.
 Remember that this is a very profitable hour for the soul; if you
 spend it in the company of the good Jesus, you are doing Him a 
great service. Be very careful, then, daughters, not to lose it. If 
you are compelled by obedience to do something else, try to leave
 your soul with the Lord. For He is your Master, and, though it be
 in a way you may not understand, He will not fail to teach you.
 But if you take your thoughts elsewhere, and pay no more attention 
to Him than if you had not received Him, and care nothing for His
 being within you, how can He make Himself known to you?
When you have received the Lord, and are in His very
 presence, try to shut the bodily eyes and to open the eyes of
 the soul and to look into your own hearts. I tell you, and tell
 you again, for I should like to repeat it often, that if you practise 
this habit of staying with Him, not just once or twice, but wheneve
r you communicate, and strive to keep your conscience clear so
 that you can often rejoice in this your Good, He will not, as I have
 said, come so much disguised as to be unable to make His presence
 known to you in many ways, according to the desire which you have
 of seeing Him. So great, indeed, may be your longing for Him that
 He will reveal Himself to you wholly.
But if we pay no heed to Him when we have received Him, and go
 away from Him in search of other and baser things, what can He 
do? Will He have to drag us by force to look at Him and be with Him
 because He desires to reveal Himself to us? No; for when He revealed
 Himself to all men plainly, and told them clearly who He was, they did
 not treat Him at all well—very few of them, indeed, even believed Him.
 So He grants us an exceeding great favour when He is pleased to show
 us that it is He Who is in the Most Holy Sacrament.
 - Way of Perfection, Chapter 34

Stay a long time after Communion  ... and make frequent Spiritual 

Communions throughout the day to practice the presence of God. 
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